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Alteil Horizons - turn based tactics card game - Relaunch

$59,222

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WE ARE FUNDED!

With PayPal figured in, we're about at 60K, which is 150% and an awesome success! Thank you everyone! It’s been our privilege to partner with all of you to make the Alteil Horizons Kickstarter everything it could be and much, much more. It was your support, feedback and great ideas that made this happen – and I think the results speak for themselves.
It's the end of a chapter for Alteil Horizons, but also the beginning of a new one! We will post updates here as Amazon payments clear and we send out Surveys to determine how and when you all want your rewards. Then it’s on to improving the pre-Alpha, adding on more content until it becomes an Alpha, then a Closed Beta, then Open Beta… and then launch! There’s an exciting road ahead of us, and I can’t wait to make that journey with you all!
Thank you again,
--Sean, Jeff, Merideth, Andrew, Jeremy, Eric, Mark, Matt, Josh and Lil’ Bringer

Alteil Horizons is a turn-based tactics game that is card-based. It has the involved deck-building of Magic: the Gathering and plays like Final Fantasy Tactics plus Scrolls.

We are a group of game industry pros who used to work on the first Alteil. We fell in love with the game, but we wanted the freedom to bring out its full potential.

When Alteil 1 was slated to be shut off, we decided to take a chance. We got the game's license and set off on our own. Now, we’re making a sequel to take what’s great about the first game, re-imagine it as a fully-featured shiny new online game, and give it the wide release it deserves. That’s Alteil Horizons.

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• A Closer Look at the Battlefield

If you back Alteil Horizons at $10 or more, we'll send you an Alpha key via Kickstarter messaging -- and 4 guest keys for your friends. Back now to check it out! If it's not for you, you can always rescind your pledge later. You have everything (or at least a great game) to gain and nothing to lose!

• As a bonus, take a look at this 'Let's Play' video made from our Alpha Tutorial by one of our awesome backers.

The Alteil Horizons team is actually two complete teams, one headquartered in Boston, MA (Apocoplay) and the other in Tokyo, Japan (Coreedge Inc). The US team has extensive experience in the trading card game industry, video game production, and creating and launching enterprise level software systems on an international scale. You can learn more about us right here.

The Japanese team is made up of well-established industry veterans who not only made their mark on the current generation of Japanese games, but had a hand in making many of the games the US team members spent their childhoods playing. The Japanese art team includes legendary artists like Katsuya Terada, Yuji Kaida, Shunya Yamashita, and Hitoshi Yoneda.

Here are some games and other properties our team members on both sides of the Pacific have had the privilege of working on:

Legend of Zelda • Secret of Mana • Final Fantasy X • Star Ocean

Phantasy Star • Wizardry Online • Chess 2 • Yugi Oh! • Virtua Fighter

Valkyrie Profile • Hellboy • Pacific Rim • Gundam • Guilty Gear

Tekken 5 • Marvel Bishojo • Godzilla Final Wars • Code Geass

Transformers • Zoids • Duel Masters • Voltron • Invader Zim

Four Gods Sleep Under the Kingdoms of Men…
Harness Their Power!
It is you who know the truth of this world. You are one of the chosen few who know of the four Ancient Gods – infinite beings forgotten by history. Each god's Sphere of Influence still permeates this world -- all living things are subconsciously bound to one of them. Tapping into the Spheres of Influence, you summon and command the might of enormous monsters, epic heroes and arcane dragons to defeat your enemies!

The Apocoplay Team has been working on the Alteil Horizons project for nearly a year with nearly no income, using our own savings to keep the project going. We have generous (non-financial) support from the Japanese team (who are the creators of Alteil 1 – and have been going above and beyond on their own time getting us artists and other talent) and we’ve been able to get the core battle engine on the launching pad. However, we are only 7 individuals, and those pesky grocery and utility bills don't pay themselves.

In order to release Alteil Horizons as a complete polished game that will wow players and grow naturally to a large player base – something absolutely vital for the PVP elements of a game like this – we need help. Many vital features are unfinished, like a core-set system (similar to Magic: The Gathering core sets) to ensure the game stays balanced and free-player collecting is fair, a marketplace, and as many tutorials and as much single player content as we can cram into it -- not to mention more mundane things like distributed servers to support a global player base with as little downtime as possible.

We don’t have funding outside our own pockets, because outside influence on a game like this is, in our experience, a formula to be pressured to introduce pay-to-win style elements. We’ve gone on our own so we could bring an awesome tactics game to our fans without having to worry about those pressures. To complete Alteil Horizons, a project ten years and two countries in the making, we’re turning to you. You -- our Kickstarter backers -- are the ones who can make this dream a reality. Thank you for your support.

Addendum -- Since the first Kickstarter we've made a deal with a game company in another country to develop a version of Alteil Horizons for them at the same time. Thanks to that deal, we were able to lower our goal to its current amount.

A Game Ten Years in the Making

Alteil was originally a Japanese game. We got at look at its first incarnation in 2006, and it had already been out for a little while in Japan (fun fact – oldest files we found on the original server were from 2003). Amid the forest of look-alike browser games that were coming out of Asia around then, it was a diamond in the rough. The core game mechanics grabbed us right away, and there were a ton of great ideas that we had never seen before. And as a digital collectable card game, it was way ahead of its time. Were you buying virtual goods way back in 2006? Didn’t think so, neither were we.

The game did get an English language version a few years later, and many of us worked on it in one capacity or another (the rest of us were busy playing it). It did okay, and the graphics weren’t bad, but we always knew it had so much more potential. It became the game that was always in the back of our mind. We wanted to bring it to more and more people. We wanted to be able to turn into something really big. If we could just get around some of its technical limitations and give it a fresh, beautiful, modern look, we knew it would be a huge hit.

Fast forward to end of last year, and the original Alteil game was about get shut off. We all know how awesome that is, to have a favorite game get shut down… yeah, we weren’t happy at all. So we decided it was now or never. We got together and started our own software company. We managed to get the license to the game and now we’re making a real sequel to Alteil. We’re building everything from the ground up to be as smooth, secure, technically advanced, and visually stunning as possible while preserving the core gameplay and great ideas of the original.

It’s been almost ten years since Alteil first emerged online. We’re incredibly excited about what Alteil: Horizons can become. Let’s make it worth the wait.

For us, Kickstarter is the difference between putting up the dueling and deck building in a rolling Beta until we collect enough funds to add each improvement, and having a real launch of a polished game that will guarantee a large player-base.

I hope to see you all in the Alteil arena!

Risks and challenges

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RISKS AND CHALLENGES

When making and launching an online game that can handle thousands or even millions of users, anything can happen is a bit of an understatement.

The key is having a talented - and experienced - team that can handle it. The software team consists of grizzled veterans of the enterprise space. On top of our gaming experience, our engineers' previous large scale projects include software for hospitals and the military.

Our project lead worked as an executive producer not only in video games, but also on film and TV projects, a cutthroat job where you make you dates or die trying, no matter what happens. A missed date can mean the whole project is canceled in those industries.

Between them and our crack team of developers and designers, risk and challenges aren't something that will stop us from doing our job. They're part of the job.

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---Tip Jar--- A vote of confidence can sometimes be worth all the money in the world. Thank you from the entire Apocoplay (US) and Coreedge (JP) staff. As a fun bonus, you'll get a 3-star Triple Change card that turns any normal rare from one copy into three (complete playset) permanently!

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---Alteil Backer--- At $10, we’ll add your name to the credits as an official Kickstarter Backer, as well as invitations to any pre-launch events or betas. You'll even get an exclusive Avatar for backers only! And yes, you also get the 3-star Triple Change from the Tip Jar level.

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---Honored Iczer--- You’ll get everything from the above Alteil Backer ($10) Level, plus we’ll give you all four starter decks (30 cards each) at level 1 to give you a head start! You’ll also get one complete Horizons pre-built deck of your choice (30 cards, $10-$15 value), as well as 1000 extra Gran ($10 value) to spend on whatever you want in the card shop. Even better, you’ll get the following exclusive cards to play with: • 1 Obsidian Dragon Kickstarter Exclusive (not even available for the JP version) • 1 Zach Wiener (SMBC) Boulder Drop Kickstarter Exclusive (not even available for the JP version) • 1 Tim Buckley (Ctrl Alt Del) Efreet Kickstarter Exclusive (not even available for the JP version) • 1 Woody Hearn (GU Comics) Folrart Knight Captain Exclusive (not even available for the JP version)

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---Dragon Rider--- You get everything from the above Honored Iczer ($20) Level, plus • two additional Alteil Horizons pre-built decks of your choice (total of three, a 30-45$ value, also redeemable immediately for any Alteil pre-built). • Two additional copies of Obsidian Dragon Kickstarter Exclusive (for a total of 3 - a complete playset) • 1 Possessed Wildcat Kickstarter Exclusive • 1 Digital Art Book of your choice: Refess, Lawtia, Gowen or Falkow (there is one for each of the four factions)

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---Mercenary Lord--- You get everything from the above Redeemer of the Cursed ($65) Level, plus • +1000 Gran (total 6000 Gran, a 60$ value) • Two additional copies of Possessed Wildcat Kickstarter Exclusive (for a total of 3 copies, a complete playset) • One additional copy of the Slave of Batora Set before general release, that's a total of two copies each of Reckless Immortal / Helcuras, Poison Lover / Rosetta, Lord of Wei / Kanyu and Warped Genius / Albert • 1 Three-Star Triple-Changer card with no expiration date, that lets you take any standard rare card in the game you have a single copy of and turn it into three copies (complete playset) permanently!

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• EARLY BIRD SPECIAL! • ---Lord of Sun and Moon (at only 95$)--- You get everything from the above Mercenary Lord ($80) Level, plus • +6000 Gran (for a total of 12000 Gran, a 120$ value) • Two additional copies of Black Mantle Kickstarter Exclusive (for a total of 3 - a complete playset) • Two additional copies of Miko Princess Hirume Kickstarter Exclusive (for a total of 3 - a complete playset). • 1 June Bride Legendary Heroine Catria Kickstarter Exclusive • Premium Account Status For Life • One additional copy the new Slave of Batora Set before general release, for a total of 3 copies each (complete playsets) of Reckless Immortal / Helcuras, Poison Lover / Rosetta, Lord of Wei / Kanyu and Warped Genius / Albert • 4 more Three-Star Triple-Changer cards with no expiration date (for a total of 6)

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KINDA EARLY BIRD SPECIAL! ---Vassal of Sun and Moon (Everything from Lord of Sun Level EXCEPT 7000 Gran instead of 12K (So, a total of $70 value -- NOTE that's 10K more Gran than this level had during the first Kickstarter) and 4 3-star Triple Changers instead of 6.

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FIRST KICKSTARTER EARLY BIRD SPECIAL -- If you select this reward, and you were on the Early Bird ($95) list (IE picked Early Bird Special) during the first run at the Alteil Horizons Kickstarter, you will get the full EARLY BIRD SPECIAL, which is equal to the Lord of Sun and Moon level. However, if you are NOT on the Early Bird list from last time and you select this, you will instead get the KINDA EARLY BIRD SPECIAL (AKA, Vassal of Sun and Moon) instead.

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---Lord of Sun and Moon--- You get everything from the above Mercenary Lord ($80) Level, plus • +6000 Gran (for a total of 12000 Gran, a 120$ value) • Two additional copies of Black Mantle Kickstarter Exclusive (for a total of 3 - a complete playset) • Two additional copies of Miko Princess Hirume Kickstarter Exclusive (for a total of 3 - a complete playset). • 1 June Bride Legendary Heroine Catria Kickstarter Exclusive • Premium Account Status For Life • One additional copy the new Slave of Batora Set before general release, for a total of 3 copies each (complete playsets) of Reckless Immortal / Helcuras, Poison Lover / Rosetta, Lord of Wei / Kanyu and Warped Genius / Albert • 4 more Three-Star Triple-Changer cards with no expiration date (for a total of 5)

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---BLACK FRIDAY ONLY REWARD LEVEL--- Everything from the Lord of the Sun and Moon level, except-- • Instead of June Bride Legendary Heroine Catria, you get an entire Magic Doll pre-built deck made just for this (non-character, except 1X Sumer)! • Includes the Black Friday Bonus Pack, if you don't already get one. • Check the Black Friday Update for more info!

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---Lone Hero of Lavato--- • Includes everything from the Lord of Sun and Moon ($125) level, plus • Holy Aura - Batora skips 1st turn for life • One copy of each card of the first Altiel: Horizons Set (60 cards total) • One copy of each card of any legacy Alteil Set of your choice (60-100 cards total - will all be playable) (new!) • Personalized Alteil lessons from one of our top players

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---Community Leader--- • Includes everything from the Lord of Sun and Moon ($125) level, plus • Ten other accounts of your choice get 1000 Gran ($100 value), one 3-Star Triple Change card, and one copy of Obsidian Dragon (not even available for the JP version) • Give Community Tournament Prizes as if you were one tier higher. • When a guild you are part of earns point cards from a non-community tournament guild event, all guild members get +5 Point Cards (Note, for multiple leaders in one guild it's +1 Point Card per additional leader, max of 10). • If you do not yet have one, your guild gains it’s own private sub-forum • You get a say in the creation of the Community Tournament System, User created single player content, and any other community based game feature in development • Unique Avatar Item to Leaders • The first five times you host a Community Tournament, you get 3 copies of a 4 or 5-star card of your choice (new!).

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---Emperor of Lavato--- Includes everything from the Lord of Sun and Moon Level, plus • 1 Copy of every non-exclusive alternate art (seasonal) card in the game (about 90 cards total). • Every non-exclusive alternate art (seasonal card) released in 2014. • 1 copy of every non-exclusive card created by our 'big four' illustrators -- Katsuya Terada, Yuji Kaida, Shunya Yamashita, and Hitoshi Yoneda (50+ cards, including a lot of rares) (new!) • Two 4-Star Triple Change cards and one 5-Star Triple Change cards. • Holy Aura - Batora skips 1st turn for life • Three copies of each card of the first Altiel: Horizons Set (180 cards total) • 1 of each of the top 100 Soul Cards in the game, by use in high RP decks (new!)

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---Grand Community Leader--- • Includes everything from the Community Leader and Emperor of Lavato tiers. (only one set of the Lord of Sun and Moon level) • Two additional copies of Obsidian Dragon and one additional 3 star Triple Change Card to each of the 10 accounts receiving gifts from the Community Leader tier. • The first ten times you host a Community Tournament, you get 3 copies of a 4 or 5-star card of your choice (instead of 5) (new!).

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---Better With Ninjas--- BLACK FRIDAY SALE, lowered from $1,000 • Includes everything from the Emperor of Lavato level • Commissioned alternate card art from Christopher Hastings (Dr. McNinja) • Three copies of the commissioned card on three accounts of your choice (3 for each account) • A large PDF of the commissioned image. • 3 copies of every Assassin card in the game (about 120 total cards) (new!)

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---Epic Hero--- • Everything from the Grand Community Leader level • Personal lessons from top Alteil player Worthing and Alteil game designer Logress • 1 of each of the tournament-legal Horizons Core cards on launch (350-450 cards) (new!).

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---Royal Banker of Folrart--- Virtual currency Level • Includes everything from the Lord of Sun and Moon ($125) level, plus • an additional 118K Gran, for a total of 130K Gran ($1,300 value) • Two more 4 Star Triple Change cards and two more 5-Star Triple Change cards.

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---Monster King--- BLACK FRIDAY SALE, lowered from $5,000 • Includes everything from the Epic Hero level • Three copies of every Monster card in the game (180+ total cards). • Two additional copies of all the tournament-legal Horizons Core cards on launch (3 copies total - 1050-1350 cards) • Commissioned card from Legendary Magic Artist Nils Hamm. Three copies of the commissioned card on three accounts of your choice (3 for each account) - A large PDF of the commissioned image.

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---Alteil Game Designer---BLACK FRIDAY SALE, lowered from $5,000 • Everything from the Epic Hero level. • Work with the Apocoplay team and one of the japanese artists to create a new card, new art, new abilities, all directed by you, that will become a permanent part of the game. • Two additional copies of all the tournament-legal Horizons Core cards on launch (3 copies total - 1050-1350 cards) • Custom Avatar by GGG

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---Zombie King--- BLACK FRIDAY SALE, lowered from $5,000 • Includes everything from the Epic Hero level • Three copies of every Undead card in the game (90+ total cards). • Two additional copies of all the tournament-legal Horizons Core cards on launch (3 copies total - 1050-1350 cards) • Commissioned card art from Arthur Suydam of Marvel Zombies fame. • Three copies of the commissioned card on three accounts of your choice (3 for each account) • A large PDF of the commissioned image.

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---Fifth God of Lavato--- BLACK FRIDAY SALE, lowered from $10,000 • Everything from the Epic Hero level. • Three copies of all Horizons Core and non-exclusive legacy cards on launch (3000+ cards) • Work with the Apocoplay team and Japanese artists to create a new EX Set, 4 pieces of new art, new abilities, all directed by you, that will become a permanent part of the game. • Work with our lead writer to create a story for this new EX: set that will become a permanent part of the game’s storyline. • One of the new EX cards will be based on your appearance, or the appearance of a friend. -Custom Avatar by GGG